Kingsburg (Third Edition)

The game of Kingsburg takes place over five years, a total of twenty turns. In every year, there are three production seasons for collecting resources, building structures, and training troops. Every fourth turn is the winter, in which all the players must fight an invading army. Each player must face the invaders, so this is not a cooperative game.

The resources to build structures and train troops are collected by influencing the advisers in the King's Council. Players place their influence dice on members of the Council, and each adviser awards different resources or allocate soldiers, victory points, and other advantages to the player who was able to influence that adviser for the current turn. The player with the lowest influence dice sum is the first to choose where to spend their influence; this acts as a way of balancing poor dice rolling. Even with a very unlucky roll, a clever player can still come out from the Council with a good number of resources and/or soldiers.

At the end of five years, the player who best developed their assigned territory and most pleased the King through the Council wins.

Changed from 2nd edition:

New art style and updated (downgraded to cardboard) game components

Contents

1x Rulebook
1x Game Board
5x Province Sheets (double-sided)
6x bonus Dice
15x Player Dice (3 for each player)
60x good tokens (25x gold, 20x wood, 15x stone)
120x building tokens (24 for each player)
20x “+2” tokens
1x King’s Envoy token
1x Season Marker token
1x Year Marker token
10x Governor tokens (2x each player)
20x Soldier tokens (10x 1 Army, 5x 3 Army, 5x 5 Army)
25x Enemy cards
30x King’s Army tokens (6 for each player)
25x Governor cards